The IL Linker is a tool one can use to only ship the minimal possible IL code and metadata that a set of programs might require to run as opposed to the full libraries

Sometimes we dont need the Razor、View etc.. It is no use for the simple or WebApi-Interface-Services.
So we can remove some services from the function of UseMvc().

Whilst the new configuration system sit unders the ASP.NET repository on GitHub, it doesn't actually have any dependency on any of the new ASP.NET components meaning it can also be used in your non .net core projects too. 

Preview: The SQLite Llibrary as a .NET assembly
The latest pre-release of SQLitePCLRaw contains a new bundle package called SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_cil. This package is like SQLitePCLRaw's other "bundle" packages except that it involves no P/Invoke and no platform-specific shared libraries. Instead, bundle_cil provides the SQLite library as a pure .NET assembly which was compiled by Llama. 

var src = new Mat(@"..\..\Images\fruits.jpg", LoadMode.AnyDepth | LoadMode.AnyColor);
Cv2.ImShow("Source", src);
Cv2.WaitKey(1); // do events
 
Cv2.Blur(src, src, new Size(15, 15));
Cv2.ImShow("Blurred Image", src);
Cv2.WaitKey(1); // do events
 
// Converts the MxNx3 image into a Kx3 matrix where K=MxN and
// each row is now a vector in the 3-D space of RGB.
// change to a Mx3 column vector (M is number of pixels in image)
var columnVector = src.Reshape(cn: 3, rows: src.Rows * src.Cols);
 
// convert to floating point, it is a requirement of the k-means method of OpenCV.
var samples = new Mat();
columnVector.ConvertTo(samples, MatType.CV_32FC3);
 
for (var clustersCount = 2; clustersCount <= 8; clustersCount += 2)
{
    var bestLabels = new Mat();
    var centers = new Mat();
    Cv2.Kmeans(
        data: samples,
        k: clustersCount,
        bestLabels: bestLabels,
        criteria:
            new TermCriteria(type: CriteriaType.Epsilon | CriteriaType.Iteration, maxCount: 10, epsilon: 1.0),
        attempts: 3,
        flags: KMeansFlag.PpCenters,
        centers: centers);
 
 
    var clusteredImage = new Mat(src.Rows, src.Cols, src.Type());
    for (var size = 0; size < src.Cols * src.Rows; size++)
    {
        var clusterIndex = bestLabels.At<int>(0, size);
        var newPixel = new Vec3b
        {
            Item0 = (byte)(centers.At<float>(clusterIndex, 0)), // B
            Item1 = (byte)(centers.At<float>(clusterIndex, 1)), // G
            Item2 = (byte)(centers.At<float>(clusterIndex, 2)) // R
        };
        clusteredImage.Set(size / src.Cols, size % src.Cols, newPixel);
    }
 
    Cv2.ImShow(string.Format("Clustered Image [k:{0}]", clustersCount), clusteredImage);
    Cv2.WaitKey(1); // do events
}
 
Cv2.WaitKey();
Cv2.DestroyAllWindows();

Online tool to help designers build color palettes with combinations that conform with accessibility standards

This release has been all about bug fixes, accessibility improvements, and documentation updates. 

using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Async07
{
    public class EggBoiler
    {
        private const int BoilingTimeMs = 200;

        private static Task boilEgg()
        {
            var bolingTask = Task.Run(() =>
            {
                Task.Delay(BoilingTimeMs);
            });
            return bolingTask;
        }

        public async Task BoilEggsSequentialAsync(int count)
        {
            for (var i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                await boilEgg();
            }
        }

        public async Task BoilEggsSimultaneousAsync(int count)
        {
            var tasksList = from egg in new[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }
                            select boilEgg();
            await Task.WhenAll(tasksList);
            // ...
        }
    }
}

    public class Downloader
    {
        private Task<string> downloadTask(string url)
        {
            return new WebClient().DownloadStringTaskAsync(url);
        }

        public async Task<int> GetTemperature()
        {
            var sites = new[]
            {
                "http://www.site1.com/svc",
                "http://www.site2.com/svc",
                "http://www.site3.com/svc",
            };
            var tasksList = from site in sites
                            select downloadTask(site);
            try
            {
                var finishedTask = await Task.WhenAny(tasksList);
                var result = await finishedTask;

            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

            }

            // todo: process result, get temperature
            return 10; // for example.
        }
    }

            foreach (var task in tasksList)
            {
                var ignored = task.ContinueWith(
                    t => Console.WriteLine(t.Exception), TaskContinuationOptions.OnlyOnFaulted);
            }

            // or
            foreach (var task in tasksList)
            {
                var ignored = task.ContinueWith(
                    t =>
                    {
                        if (t.IsFaulted)
                            Console.WriteLine(t.Exception);
                    });
            }

        public async Task ShowTemperatures()
        {
            var sites = new[]
            {
                "http://www.site1.com/svc",
                "http://www.site2.com/svc",
                "http://www.site3.com/svc",
            };
            var tasksList = sites.Select(site => downloadTask(site)).ToList();

            while (tasksList.Any())
            {
                try
                {
                    var tempTask = await Task.WhenAny(tasksList);
                    tasksList.Remove(tempTask);

                    var result = await tempTask;
                    //todo: show result
                }
                catch(Exception ex) { }
            }
        }

 byte [] buffer = new byte[0x1000];
int numRead;
while((numRead = await source.ReadAsync(buffer, 0, buffer.Length).ConfigureAwait(false)) > 0)
{
  await source.WriteAsync(buffer, 0, numRead).ConfigureAwait(false);
}

One of common concerns I faced in web/frontend development is libraries like “Angularjs, Bootstrap, JQuery… etc..” loading time, and how that affect on website performance, when you need to load several libraries to your website/page.. specially with low internet speed connections